BJP to oppose judicial commission on 2G

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday said it would continue to oppose the United Progressive Alliance government’s decision to set up a one-man judicial commission to probe the alleged irregularities in the allocation of 2G-spectrum.

BJP and the Left parties have alreaedy stalled Parliament for past three weeks.

The government on Thursday said retired Supreme Court judge Shivaraj V Patil would probe the alleged scam since 2001-to- 2009.

Significantly, the BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was in power between 1998-2004.

The BJP planned a protest movement in Parliament against the government’s decision .

The BJP alleged that the government’s decision had been influenced by Ratan Tata’s alleged remarks that many of the flip flops in the telecom policy took place when the NDA was in power.

Tata’s comment came after BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrashekher had alleged that the Tata group had been a beneficiary from the out of turn allotment of spectrum, which Tata denied.